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- Title: Four Paths Five Destinations: Constructing Imaginaries of Alter-Globalization Through Literary Texts (Essay)
- Author : Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 255 KB
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In a 2001 article, Nicholas Brown ends his analysis of the global relevance of literature as carrier of an 'eidaesthetic' project, as defined by Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe with reference to Schlegel, on a skeptical note. Brown traces the 'striving' of this project--which transforms from the notion of the aesthetic sublime to a utopian one and which provides an intellectual framework for the notion of world literature--from Romanticism, through European Modernism, to the literature of decolonization. Its 'utopian impulse' disappears in postcolonial writing but 'reappears precisely in the emergence of theory in the 1960s'. (1) With reference to Jameson, Brown raises the question of whether 'the emergence of Theory signal[s] ... the end of Literature' (EI 847). While he does not want to reply to this question with an unequivocal 'Yes', he does suggest that It seems reasonable to be agnostic about the future of literature, which is threatened not only by a kind of technical obsolescence and by an entirely complementary tendency to sink back into the merely decorative, but also, and perhaps more consequently, by the rise of other cultural forms that seem better able to carry literature's eidaesthetic project into a fully globalized world. ... Could it be that music has somehow been able to take over the objectives of the two-hundred-year-old project of literature? (EI 847)
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